NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD Radeon R9 285

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NVIDIA A30 PCIe AMD Radeon R9 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +213%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

3584

Shading Units

1792

224

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Tonga

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GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

190W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

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